Já andavamos com a ideia de fazer uns postais com as esquilo, e porque não agora? E foi assim mesmo.
O desenho em baixo é um pequeno preview do que vem por aí!
\\This as been passed between the indoors christmas market and creation of a few surprises that we have been preparing for long time. If everything goes right the big reveal will be next week.However I'm thinking if I show some of what we are working on... hum... Ok, I will, but just a little bit of it.We had this idea for a long time of making some postcards with the squirrels, and why not now? And that's what we do it.The illustration below is a little preview of what's coming.

Porque também é importante estar com os amigos e relaxar, e apenas divertir-se \\ Because is also important be with friends and relax, and just have fun.

E agora vou regressar para a CCChic que a minha horita de almoço já acabou... encontramo-nos por lá?
\\The squirrels are back, and just in time for Christmas!Have you missed them? 'Cause they missed you!And now I going back to the christmas marker, my lunch hour is gone... Meet you there?

OThursday Bits é escrito pela Mafalda, designer gráfica e ilustradora, mas acima de tudo uma sonhadora de idiotices (ideias), está sempre a pensar no que criar a seguir. Neste espaço ela gosta de partilhar novidades deste projeto Nuts for Paper e do que as Anas andam a criar. \\ Thursday Bits is written by Mafalda, graphic designer and illustrator, but above all a dreamer of ideas, she is always thinking what she can create next. In this space she likes to share news about this project Nuts for Paper and of what the Anas are creating.

Until Christmas this chronicle will be a little bit more short, but I'll always left you with some music as usual. These last few days the only music I've been listening to is in the car while driving to home or work; and the soundrack has been 21st Century Breakdown from Green Day. I'm tired of the radio; it's the same songs playing in loop all the time, so a cd is always a good idea. As I like to drive with electrifying music, Green Day seemed perfect. Hope you guys enjoy and see you next week!

\\A crónica The Jukebox Girl é escrita pela Catarina, designer gráfica e uma das Anas do projeto Nuts for Paper. Neste espaço ela partilha convosco as suas peripécias, delírios e desejos, sempre acompanhadas com uma bela banda sonora há mistura, porque afinal de contas, a vida sem música não é a mesma coisa. \\ The Jukebok Girl chronicle is written by Catarina, graphic and designer and one of the Anas of Nuts for Paper project. In this space she shares with you her advurentes, delusions and dreams, always accompanied with a crazy mix of songs that reflect her mood because after all, life without music is not the same thing.

\\This is the 100th post in the blog!WOW, seams like yesterday that we started and we are already reached this number! To celebrate this and Christmas we are going to have another giveaway soon. Be patient and with attention, it will be very soon.We are getting ready for the Christmas Market - CCChic in our hometown, it starts next saturday!How it is possible that's almost a month until Christmas?As you can imagine we have hectic! And with some stress added in the mix too! We have a lot of things ready for the Christmas Market and also a surprises under our sleeves that we will reveal soon.

Prendas de Natal! Serão? \\ Christmas Gifts? Are they?

Curiosos sobre como vai ser a nossa banca? Nós também!!
Estas prendas vão lá estar connosco, e os cadernos e blocos de notas da coleção de Natal também!
\\Curious about how our stand will be? So do we!!!But what we know is that these gifts will be with us, and also the notebooks and matchbooks from the Christmas Collection!

Blocos de Notas de Natal \\ Christmas Matchbooks

A semana passada mostrei alguns dos pequenos blocos de notas que estavam a ser feitos. E aí estão eles todos acabados e alinhados, à espera de serem fotografados e de irem para a CCChic
\\Last week I showed some of the matchbooks that were on the making. And here they are all finished and aligned, waiting to be photographed and go to the CCChic.

OThursday Bits é escrito pela Mafalda, designer gráfica e ilustradora, mas acima de tudo uma sonhadora de idiotices (ideias), está sempre a pensar no que criar a seguir. Neste espaço ela gosta de partilhar novidades deste projeto Nuts for Paper e do que as Anas andam a criar. \\ Thursday Bits is written by Mafalda, graphic designer and illustrator, but above all a dreamer of ideas, she is always thinking what she can create next. In this space she likes to share news about this project Nuts for Paper and of what the Anas are creating.

Can you believe this is already our 99th post in our blog?! I'm not a big fan of pair numbers (I leave that to Mafalda), so I decided that 99 posts was a importante number to share with you guys! Time flies when you do what you love and me and Mafalda are very proud of what we achieved so far. With baby steps we are sharing our passion to the world. So let's take a little break for "celebrate good times", like the song says, and then we'll go back to work ;)

Ok, back to work! In our studio everything is a mess! We are dealing with the final preparations for the fair we are attending during one month (yes, you are reading well! We will be on CCChic a whole month, here in Torres Vedras, which begins this saturday 23th november!) and, as we are finishing the last details, our desks are chaos! In mine, snowflakes are everywhere (a new collection of Winter notebooks is coming out soon!), to match the cold that settled in our town and as soundtrack the song Let it Snow is the tune of the moment. The winter has not started yet and I cannot stand this cold!Stay tunned and don't forget to read Mafalda's chronicle Thursday Bits for more news! Until next week, come visit us on CCChic!

Michael Bublé - Let it Snow

\\A crónica The Jukebox Girl é escrita pela Catarina, designer gráfica e uma das Anas do projeto Nuts for Paper. Neste espaço ela partilha convosco as suas peripécias, delírios e desejos, sempre acompanhadas com uma bela banda sonora há mistura, porque afinal de contas, a vida sem música não é a mesma coisa. \\ The Jukebok Girl chronicle is written by Catarina, graphic and designer and one of the Anas of Nuts for Paper project. In this space she shares with you her advurentes, delusions and dreams, always accompanied with a crazy mix of songs that reflect her mood because after all, life without music is not the same thing.

I have been feeling so lucky lately! I will explain it all right away!
Recently I created a Etsy shop with some itens done by grandma. It's called Linhas d'Avó (Granny's Threads). Granny is so happy about it (it was one of her secret dreams - open a shop), and also the feedback as been really good.
I won a giveway from a etsy shop that I LOVE - Lacuna- books with wooden memory and other unique pieces - They have handmade notebooks with upcycled (portuguese) wood covers. Perfect match to me.

Mais matchbooks da coleção de natal \\ More matchbooks from the Christmas collection

Mais matchbooks da coleção de natal \\ More matchbooks from the Christmas collection

OThursday Bits é escrito pela Mafalda, designer gráfica e ilustradora, mas acima de tudo uma sonhadora de idiotices (ideias), está sempre a pensar no que criar a seguir. Neste espaço ela gosta de partilhar novidades deste projeto Nuts for Paper e do que as Anas andam a criar. \\ Thursday Bits is written by Mafalda, graphic designer and illustrator, but above all a dreamer of ideas, she is always thinking what she can create next. In this space she likes to share news about this project Nuts for Paper and of what the Anas are creating.

It's been a whole week of party in my town. Actually, yesterday was the day of S. Martinho (our city patron) and as tradition we drink wine and eat roasted chestnuts. I love roasted chestnuts, they are so good and with this cold is great to warm it up. But I have to confess that my mind is all about Christmas. I've been breathing Christmas papercuts for a while, and this weekend was no exception. I feel like I'm so focused in this that time is flying and I'm so late with my gifts!! Yap, that's true, I'm freaking out a little bit, because I hate do my shopps in a rush, but it's been really hard to find time to do so much! It's been house-work, work-house, work in the house... it make me tired almost by reading it! And I know the right advice my mind speaks to me in silence "Relax, take it easy and everything's gonna be alright", pretty much like the songs (if you don't know what I'm talking about check it out below). My mind is really pick it up some stupid tunes nowadays... maybe my brain is also freaking out a little bit. But well, speaking in work, our Christmas Collection has been very appreciated, and the comments have been so good. I'm very happy with that, to see that people enjoy our creativity and hard work. If you didn't left us your feedback yet, feel free to do it, we like to know what you think about our work. Speaking of that, let me do some more papercuts... very soon you know for what event they are. Stay tunned and until next week, take care ;)

Mika - Relax, Take It Easy

Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright

\\A crónica The Jukebox Girl é escrita pela Catarina, designer gráfica e uma das Anas do projeto Nuts for Paper. Neste espaço ela partilha convosco as suas peripécias, delírios e desejos, sempre acompanhadas com uma bela banda sonora há mistura, porque afinal de contas, a vida sem música não é a mesma coisa. \\ The Jukebok Girl chronicle is written by Catarina, graphic and designer and one of the Anas of Nuts for Paper project. In this space she shares with you her advurentes, delusions and dreams, always accompanied with a crazy mix of songs that reflect her mood because after all, life without music is not the same thing.

Vamos começar por revelar mais um pouco dos cadernos.
\\We are about to reveal the Christmas notebooks collection. But don't think that the news will end there! Let's start to reveal some of the notebooks of the Christmas collection.

Nesta coleção escolhemos uma técnica diferente da que temos usado. Normalmente pintamos à mão os cadernos que criamos. Desta vez optámos por usar recortes. Todos os motivos foram cortados e colados nos cadernos.
\\In this collection we choose a different technique of what we have been doing. Usually we paint by hand the notebooks that we create. This time we choose to use papercuts. All the papercuts were hancuted and glued in the notebooks.

Prontos a ser colados \\ Ready to be assembled

Em termos de cores optámos também por algo diferente do habitual. Escolhemos como base a cor preta com motivos brancos. E depois nos detalhes usamos vermelho ou verde.
\\We opted for a color scheme different from what we usually do. As base we choose black, with white papercuts. And the details used red or green.

E vocês já começaram a pensar no natal?
Prometo trazer mais novidades durante a próxima semana, até lá...
\\And for those who are wondering - what about the squirrels? Where are Chubby and Snuggly? Don't worry they're not hibernating. They are getting ready for Christmas. They're wondering between the attic looking for Christmas decorations, the kitchen and christmas cookies, and getting snug with warm blankets. But they will return soon.And you, did you start thinking about christmas yet?I promise bring more news during this week, see you soon...

O Thursday Bits é escrito pela Mafalda, designer gráfica e ilustradora, mas acima de tudo uma sonhadora de idiotices (ideias), está sempre a pensar no que criar a seguir. Neste espaço ela gosta de partilhar novidades deste projeto Nuts for Paper e do que as Anas andam a criar. \\ Thursday Bits is written by Mafalda, graphic designer and illustrator, but above all a dreamer of ideas, she is always thinking what she can create next. In this space she likes to share news about this project Nuts for Paper and of what the Anas are creating.

November has arrived and with it the cold has come to stay. I bet I didn't have to say that I'm with flu. It's like math: me plus cold equals flu. However it's not a tiny little flu that keeps me down. I didn't stop this weekend. Besides taking care of Mia and Mel and recharge my patience levels with family dramas, I finally start to do some Christmas' shopping, yay!I really love Christmas and one of my favorite parts of that is in the magic of finding the gifts that suit to the loved ones. And I have to say this year's list is a little bit extense and the budget well... it's not. Plus, I have so many birthdays to come like my mom's and some close friends... I wish money could grow on trees so I can give them what they deserve... But I cannot, so creativity is always the key to offer something original and unique (by the way, talking about original and unique, I'm dying to show you guys our notebooks' Christmas collection! Modesty aside is really sooooo cute! Stay tunned because we're giving news really soon!). I cannot talk about my shopping in detail because the people in question might read this and I hate ruin surprises. I like to keep their curiosity on high mode until midnight of 24th December. If you are also curious, all I have to say is: a little patience my friends! I promise to tell you everything after Christmas ;)And what about yourselfs? Have you started your Christmas' shopping? Need some ideas? Drop a line on the comments below, I wanna know everything! Meanwhile, a little bit of inspiration is always good to the soul, and nothing better than some Christmas's songs to embrace the spirit. I choose a couple of Kelly Clarkson's songs of her brand new album Wrapped in Red. Hope you guys enjoy and see you next week!

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A crónica The Jukebox Girl é escrita pela Catarina, designer gráfica e uma das Anas do projeto Nuts for Paper. Neste espaço ela partilha convosco as suas peripécias, delírios e desejos, sempre acompanhadas com uma bela banda sonora há mistura, porque afinal de contas, a vida sem música não é a mesma coisa. \\ The Jukebok Girl chronicle is written by Catarina, graphic and designer and one of the Anas of Nuts for Paper project. In this space she shares with you her advurentes, delusions and dreams, always accompanied with a crazy mix of songs that reflect her mood because after all, life without music is not the same thing.